KABUL (Pajhwok): A high ranking police official was killed in a suicide attack in the capital of Pakistan ’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, media reports said. Additional Inspector General (AIG) (Headquarters) Ashraf Noor was in his...

MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Five family members of a Taliban commander were killed in an airstrike in Nijrab district of central Kapisa province last night, an official said on Friday. The airstrike was called in after the Taliban commander, Maulvi...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Daesh or the Islamic State (IS) militant organization cut off heads of its 15 group’s members in the Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Thursday. Governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Eight people were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide attack in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, on Thursday, local officials said. The blast happened at around 3:00pm in Campono area in the limits of...

HEART CITY (Pajhwok): A fuel seller stabbed two of his customers to death following a verbal dispute in western Heart province on Thursday, an official said. Provincial police acting spokesman, Sayed Ahmad Mohammadi, told Pajhwok Afghan News the...

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Five police officers have been dismissed after unknown individuals sprinkled acid on the faces of two sisters in the capital of western Herat province, an official said on Thursday. Police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada told...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Three Georgian soldiers have been injured during a patrol around an airfield in central Afghanistan , the Defence Ministry in Tbilisi says. In the second month of their tour of duty, the servicemen were involved in the NATO -led...

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): An armed clash over the election of the provincial council head in southern Ghazni province left three people injured on Wednesday, an official said. A source in the provincial council office, wishing anonymity, told Pajhwok...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): US forces for a second time bombed another four narcotics making factories of Taliban militants in southern Helmand province, the provincial government said on Wednesday, but the rebels said they owned no such facilities. The...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Sixteen Taliban fighters including several commanders have been killed in a clearing operation in central Maidan Wardak province, police said on Wednesday. Afghan police, army, special forces and commandos took part in Tuesday’s...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Border policeman was killed and three others wounded during a clash, while four Daesh or Islamic State militants have been killed in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Hazrat Hussain...

SAR-I-PUL CITY (Pajhwok): Local security officials on Tuesday said criminal cases decreased by 40 percent in the first eight months of the solar year in northern Sar-i-Pul province over last year’s incidents in the same period. Sar-i-Pul deputy...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Hundreds of Kabul University students staged protest rallies in central Kabul and Bamyan provinces on Tuesday, days after a veterinary student committed suicide after her thesis were rejected for eighth time. Zahra Khwarai ate a...

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Unknown individuals sprayed acid on the faces of two sisters in the capital of western Herat province, officials said on Tuesday. The victims were admitted to the Burns Ward of the Herat Hospital. Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, an...

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Fifty-five insurgents have been killed and 10 others injured in security forces joint operations in the Maiwand and Zherai districts of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Tuesday. Police spokesman Zia Durrani...

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Eight Taliban , including the group’s commander, have been killed in security forces raid in the Baraki Barak district of central Logar province, an official said on Tuesday. Governor spokesman Saleem Saleh said the raid was...